#start

Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics. ↗

— Edward Said

#caught #completely #directly #english #felt

Cabin Fever was murder. There was a lot of psychological stress, like not knowing if we were going to finish the movie. The day we arrived to start rehearsals, our main investors pulled out. ↗

— Rider Strong

#cabin #day #fever #finish #going

Blues was my first love. It was the first thing where I said, 'Oh man, this is the stuff.' It just sounded so raw and honest, gut-bucket honest. From then I started rebelling. ↗

— Carlos Santana

#first #first love #first thing #honest #i

We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

#american way #finish #job #start #way

I started out with comedy in college, but had my major in Recreation Administration - which meant I wasn't going to get a real job - so I started doing a little standup. ↗

— Carlos Alazraqui

#college #comedy #doing #get #get a real

If you are fully alive to the prospect of dying, you really start reprioritising your life. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dying #fully #fully alive #life #prospect

In my experience, it's all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers. ↗

— Tim Allen

#around #calm #calm down #challenging #down

The weird thing was that Soft Cell was supposed to have come and gone before I started the album. ↗

— Marc Almond

#before #cell #come #gone #i

The problem with the West is that they start with political reform going towards democracy. If you want to go towards democracy, the first thing is to involve the people in decision making, not to make it. ↗

— Bashar al-Assad

#decision making #democracy #first #first thing #go

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#carry #day #eliminate #figured #get